MY LOST HORIZON

Les Brown & His Band (vocal: Doris Day) - 1946
(Recorded as a "Soundie")*




You're like a distant lost horizon
My love, you're unattainable to me
You're like some far off lost horizon
My love, out where the sky meets the sea

For just to hold you near would be like touching the stars
Or reaching the Moon, caressing a tune
But then elusively you slip right out of my hands
You're just a mirage, but, Darling, you're grand

Someday I'll find my lost horizon
And you, until that day of days, I'll be
Just like that ship on my horizon
You see, that sails across the sea

All through the dark and stormy weather
Hoping some day we will sail together
So, I'm striving toward my lost horizon
In hope that we may meet some day


*Soundies were an early form of the music video: three-minute musical films produced between 1940 and 1946. The films were displayed on the Panoram, a coin-operated film jukebox.


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2010)